Installed 4.3 on Jaunty - Worried about upgrades

[JotaPe]

Hi everybody,

Yesterday I installed KDE 4.3 on Jaunty, using the Kubuntu Backports PPA, and it's working fine. However, I have some questions.

First, how does it impacts the ability of the system to upgrade itself to Karmic, when it gets released in October? I'm worried that I'll end up with lots of orphan packages that will need manual removal, or maybe the system will simple not be able to upgrade, and I'll have to reinstall from scratch.

Also, does the PPA installation leaves any orphan packages from 4.2? Because I've noticed an increase in disk usage after the installation. And why does it needs to install mysql?

Finally, is it safe to remove the wallpapers packages that were installed without breaking the system?

[lmilano]

Re: Installed 4.3 on Jaunty - Worried about upgrades

Hi

The upgrade will be validated against an official install, but what can you do now. I recommend you install icewm _now_, login once, make youself at home, make sure you can open synaptic and a terminal there, just in case things break in the upgrade to Karmic down the road (who knows, the upgrade might be fine after all)

Yes, you can remove the wallpapers

Mysql is used by akonadi, which is a central component in KDE 4.3 (and there is no way to avoid using it, pretty much).

Enjoy 4.3, it is beautiful!

[JotaPe]

Re: Installed 4.3 on Jaunty - Worried about upgrades

Thanks for your answer! I removed the wallpaper packages: kdewallpapers, kdebase-workspace-wallpapers and plasma-wallpapers-addons and everything is still working. Good!

However, apt-get now says that some packages, like plasma-widgets-addons are no longer required and should be removed with apt-get autoremove. I don't want to remove those packages, I just want to remove the packages that I have already removed. Why are the widgets no longer required? Just because I don't want the wallpapers? It does not make sense to me

Is there anyway to stop that message from apt-get, without removing the packages?

EDIT: It is probably due to the fact that the metapackage kdeplasma-addons was removed together with the plasma-wallpapers-addons. The packages that apt-get wants to remove are probably related with the metapackage. I could remove the packages with the autoremove and reinstall, without installing the metapackage, but it does not sound productive to me. There should be a way to set a flag at the apt database to tell apt-get that those packages are required.

[lmilano]

Re: Installed 4.3 on Jaunty - Worried about upgrades

My pleasure

This is a good guess. I would just ignore the message. Keep in mind that these packages have been packaged quickly and unofficially for enthusiasts who want to be on the bleeding age, or to report bugs, but there may be some tags off in the packages (this recommendation doesn't seem right to me).

Incidentally, I use gtkorphan to remove orphaned packages, this gives you more control (you choose what to, and what not to uninstall).

[skunk]

Re: Installed 4.3 on Jaunty - Worried about upgrades

Does the error go away if you do

sudo apt-get install plasma-widgets-addons

(even though it is already installed)

[JotaPe]

Re: Installed 4.3 on Jaunty - Worried about upgrades

Does the error go away if you do

sudo apt-get install plasma-widgets-addons

(even though it is already installed)

Yeah! It worked, thanks! In the end it was an easy upgrade to apply, thanks guys for the support with the minor issues.